| The French Second Empire Contributor(s): Price, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521808308 ISBN-13: 9780521808309 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $147.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - Political Science |
| Dewey: 944.070 |
| LCCN: 2001025954 |
| Lexile Measure: 1830 |
| Series: New Studies in European History |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (2 lbs) 518 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This thoroughly researched book on the Second Empire examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was able to secure election as President of the Republic and subsequently to launch a coup d' tat to establish a Second Empire. It considers the ways in which power was exercised by the new empire and how Napoleon III engaged in a difficult process of transition towards more liberal policies only to experience catastrophic defeat and the destruction of the regime because of war against Prussia. |
Contributor Bio(s): Price, Roger: - Roger Price taught at the University of East Anglia, 1968 93, eventually becoming Professor of European History. In 1993 he moved to Aberystwyth as Professor of History. His many other books include The French Second Republic: A Social History (1972), Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the French Second Republic (1975), The Modernisation of Rural France: Communication Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France (1983), A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987), The Revolutions of 1848 (1988) and A Concise History of France (1993). |